A misconfigured robots.txt can make your entire website invisible to AI systems. Many businesses don't realize they're blocking GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot because those rules were added years ago using wildcard disallow patterns. This guide shows you how to check your robots.txt, which crawlers matter, and how to fix blocking rules safely.
This article was originally published on byfaro.ai/blog/robots-txt-ai-crawlers. Read the full guide there — it includes step-by-step examples and Faro audit tool links.
What you'll learn
This guide covers the full picture on is your robots.txt blocking ai crawlers? how to check and what to fix, including:
- Why this matters for AI agent discoverability
- What to check on your own site
- The specific fixes that move your score
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didn't even realize ClaudeBot had its own specific user agent, thanks for the heads up